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A liquor store is a retail shop that sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages — typically in bottles — intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom, they may also be called bottle store, off licence, bottle shop, bottle-o, package store (in Boston, called a ''packie''), ABC store, state store, or other similar terms. Many states and jurisdictions have an alcohol monopoly.